#noble

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

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The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete. ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

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Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

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A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that. ↗

— Roger Ebert

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